TRUCKLE  , a verb meaning to submit servilely or fawningly to another's bidding, to yield in a weak, feeble or contemptible way . The origin is the " truckle See also:

• BED
• BED (a common Teutonic word, cf. German Bett, probably connected with the Indo-European root bhodh, seen in the Lat. fodere, to dig; so " a dug-out place " for safe resting, or in the same sense as a garden " bed ")

bed," a small bed on wheels which could be pushed under a large one . In See also:

• EARLY
• EARLY, JUBAL ANDERSON (1816-1894)

early times servants or See also:

• CHILDREN, LAW RELATING TO

children slept in such beds, placed at the See also:

• FOOT

foot of their masters' and parents' bed, but the name first appears as a university word, and was derived See also:

• DIRECT

direct from Latin trochlea, a See also:

• WHEEL (0. Eng. hweol, hweohl, &c., cognate with Icel. hjol, Dan. hiul, the Indo-European root is seen in Sanskrit chakra, Gr. r in Aos, circle, whence " cycle ")
• WHEEL, BREAKING ON THE

wheel or See also:

• PULLEY

pulley-See also:

• BLOCK
• BLOCK (from the Fr. bloc, and possibly connected with an Old Ger. Block, obstruction, cf. " baulk ")
• BLOCK, MAURICE (1816–19or)

block, See also:

• GREEK
• GREEK, ETRUSCAN AND

Greek Tpoxos, wheel (rpEXeiv, to run) .